Word: precampaign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino and the other major opposition candidate, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel. The primate reassured Aquino that she could successfully challenge Marcos, and helped persuade Laurel to bury his own presidential aspirations and become her running mate. Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal sent a letter to all Philippine parishes pointedly instructing the faithful to vote for those who showed "respect for human rights and life...
Critics of Mrs. Gandhi, noting that she must call national elections by next January, suspect that Rama Rao's removal is part of a precampaign maneuver to strengthen the Prime Minister's hand in the six of India's 22 states that Congress (I) did not control. Only six weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka...